Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 253 Close the door and refuse to defend, desperate fight

Wuchang City is a large city, and the streets in the main city are relatively wide. Under the firearms on both sides, the Qing army's iron cavalry began to be unable to withstand it. Seeing this, Azige personally ordered Oboi and Ashan to take a road of fine horses to detour around the left and right streets. Shooting at the firearms soldiers of the Extinguished Army, trying to copy the back route of the firearms soldiers of the Extinguished Army.

However, at that time, Gao Yigong had personally led [-] cavalry to kill the cavalry led by Ah Li. These old rogues were no worse than the Manchurian cavalry. After the two armies clashed, some of the cavalry fell off their horses.

At the same time, Li Jin led the archers to block the Qing army under Oboi's troops. The cavalry of the Ali Ministry were highly mobile and superb in archery, but they could not be used in the narrow space of the city. On the contrary, they were not as good as Li Jin's archers. Shooting feathers and arrows is so dense that it can't take advantage of it for a while.

But after all, Oboi is the so-called Batulu in Manchuria. He led his white-armored soldiers and rushed towards Li Jin's troops under the rain of arrows. He was extremely fast, and he arrived in front of Li Jin's formation in a blink of an eye. Li Jin's troops were caught off guard. He was killed by Oboi, causing chaos.

Seeing that his adoptive father was in danger, Li Laiheng also led his soldiers to kill him, while Oboi and other white-armored soldiers roared in with heavy arrows like lightning. Afraid of death, he stabbed a spear into the belly of a red armored soldier, but he himself was also taken into the air and smashed heavily to the ground.

Here, Li Yan also hurriedly asked Yuan Zongdi to rescue Li Jin's troops, while Yuan Zongdi's troops advanced according to the ruined walls, throwing countless thunderbolts at the cavalry camp rushing towards Oboi, and at the same time formed spears to resist horses, and Oboi's troops marched forward. Several white-armored soldiers were killed in an instant, and the camp was in chaos, and many iron cavalry who rushed up also collided with Yuan Zongdi's spear formation.

Aobai saw that Yuan Zongdi's army was a new force with explosive weapons, so he had to immediately retreat with most of the white armored soldiers, and made a detour to attack Gao Yigong's side, and joined forces with Ashan's army to attack Gao Yigong's army. Gong had no choice but to retreat with the cavalry, and Yuan Zongdi's troops had to take a shortcut to prevent Ao Bai and A Li's troops from invading the Huguang governor's office.

At the same time, Li Yan immediately ordered Li Nian's subordinates and Du Yinxi's supervisor to rush to help.

In an instant, the cavalry of Oboi and Ah Li were caught in the melee between the infantry and the narrow streets. Aoboi and the others could only chop and chop on the horse, and could not move back and forth. The military cavalry had to dismount and fight on foot, and the two sides turned into a hand-to-hand battle. For a while, the street entrance three miles in front of the Huguang Governor's Office was full of corpses and blood flowed like a river.

Here, Liu Tichun's firearms soldiers and Chadli's [-] Portuguese soldiers stopped Wu Sangui's Guanning iron cavalry, and Gao Yigong also brought the rest of the cavalry to kill Azig, so Azige saw that he had already Taking advantage of less than the slightest advantage, they quickly ordered a retreat before sunset.

The firearms soldiers could not massacre the cavalry of the Qing army who were still retreating at high speed, and there were not enough high-level cavalry, so it was even more impossible for the infantry to catch up, so they could only watch helplessly as the Qing army receded like a tide. .

Li Yan breathed a sigh of relief: "If it weren't for the support of the imperial court, this battle would have been lost!"

Du Yinxi didn't sigh so much. At this time, he looked at the corpses lying on the street, but he habitually mobilized the officials and people in the city to gather these corpses, and the wounded were brought back for treatment. As a local official in Huguang, he seemed to be used to it. Such bloody killing scenes.

Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi, Li Jin, Liu Tichun and other generals of the extermination army, as well as Chadley, a member of the Western Battalion, did not say a word after returning to the Governor's Office. If they did not know that the imperial court would have reinforcements coming tomorrow morning, these generals would I'm afraid I'm going to make a fuss and leave tonight.

Azig also slammed his fist on the table unwillingly: "When did the firearms of the Ming army become so sharp! Fortunately, how many shells are there for the red cannon?"

"Back to the prince, there are not many more, and we have to prepare to attack Jiujiang and Luzhou and other cities," Shang Kexi replied.

"Tomorrow morning, shoot out all the cannonballs and flatten the city of Wuchang for this king. You don't need to attack Jiujiang and other cities later. If this king is right, the imperial court's order is coming soon," Azige said angrily. : "If you don't take Wuchang City, I won't be reconciled!"

At this time, Niu Luzhang Jingyebilong walked in: "My lord, Master Xihanbei is here."

Beizi Xihan immediately went to see Azige: "Brother Wang, the Regent has a secret letter for you. After receiving this letter, you should immediately withdraw your troops and return to the court without delay!"

Azig couldn't help clenching his iron fist, gnashing his teeth, not knowing what to say.

"My lord, what do you think?" Shang Kexi walked over at this time and asked if he wanted to continue the attack tomorrow morning.

"Continue to attack!"

Azig roared.

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The next morning.

Li Yan and the others hadn't had breakfast yet, when the entire city of Wuchang heard the sound of thunder.

The lobby of the Huguang Governor's Office was also directly blasted at this moment, collapsing to the ground, and the guard guarding the gate was crushed to death on the spot.

Du Yinxi and Li Yan, Governor of Huguang, ran out immediately upon hearing the sound, and could not help seeing the sound of collapse coming from all around.

"No, the Qing army is going to raze Wuchang City to the ground, build a platform, and immediately order the army to gather at the Governor's Office! Hurry up!" Li Yan shouted excitedly.

At this time, nearly [-] iron cavalry from the Azig Department of the Qing Army had come from all directions, indeed from all directions, and many city walls were blown down. At this time, the extermination army was completely unable to stop the iron cavalry coming from all around, and could only fight on their own for a while.

Fortunately, Li Yan reacted quickly, and now there are messengers running around. Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi first ran towards the Governor's Office of Huguang with their own troops, while Li Jin's department had already been cut off. In addition, Li Jin's department was defeated once yesterday. This time, he was killed again and fled in embarrassment. Li Jin himself fell into the moat.

Yuan Zongdi relied on a section of the city wall that had not collapsed to resist. Fortunately, Azig's main attack was the Huguang Governor's Office, so he only let the Han soldiers who were still happy to attack Yuan Zongdi, so that Yuan Zongdi's troops were not defeated for a while.

Chadley's Portuguese soldiers also followed Liu Tichun and others to the Governor's Office of Huguang.

But at this time, the Manchurian iron cavalry of Oboi and Ashan had also come towards the governor of Huguang with murderous intent, while Gao Yigong and Liu Tichun both looked at Li Yan, and Du Yinxi also looked at Li Yan: "Military teacher, what should we do now? "

"Close the door and refuse to defend! Fight to the death!" Li Yan only said these eight words, and tens of thousands of extermination troops relied on the Huguang Governor's Office to organize resistance, but many extermination troops began to flee, and the Eight Banners who were rushed The iron cavalry shot and killed, forcing all the officers and soldiers of the extermination army to retreat.

But at this time, the people were panicked and the army had no fighting spirit. Li Yan couldn't help looking at Wu Mengming, the commander of the Jinyiwei, and began to suspect that Wu Mengming had spread false news. Maybe there was no imperial reinforcements in fact, and his face was cold: "Where are the imperial reinforcements?"

Gao Yigong and Li Nian even drew out their knives and pointed at Wu Mengming.

(End of this chapter)